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I am building a diorama with the Yukikaze in a dockside in Kure preparing for TEN-GO operation (Okinawa mission with Battlehship Yamato).

The inspiration came from the photo post "IJN Dockside Diorama" in this forum, I really like the diorama so I decided to do something similar but in 1/700 scale.

I have just started the Yukikaze,it is an Aoshima kit. Last two nights I was super-detailing the bridge. Enjoy building a japanese destroyer, and applying the all experience learned from making Destroyer Harusame last year really helps. The photos show below are where I just up to at the moment. I will post pictures in this forum of the building progress. Hopefully I can finish this diorama in two months time in order to participate a modellling Competition.

I use Gakken "Kagero Class" as the main reference material for super detailing the Yukikaze. I try to insert every single detail if possible in this 1/700 model. The diorama is very small (about 15x10cm), so I am quite sure it will be fun. I never make a ship dockside diorama before, so it will be challenging, but I cannot wait to finish the model and see the result ~ !

Alan

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Glad to see someone inspired by my work

Looking great so far, I'll be keeping an eye on this one as it looks like you're going to be adding details that I wasn't aware of as I had no references for the Yukikaze.

John

Can't wait for Part 2!

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holy crap... that's some beautiful work! I would have cursed up a storm fighting with that much detailing in the fine scale we both work in. Beautiful job, keep up the good work, I bet you have a stick with some leather on it to bite when you're driving yourself nuts on the detail, or something of the sort, right? I remember your pain on the drilling the windows, I had to drill in that fine for fitting 15cm gun barrels, with a 1/64" drillbit, damn thing only worked After it snapped down to a more managable bit length! Sweet job though, keep it up!

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I love how its coming along so far, and I especially love your close up photo skills with illustrations. Mine leave much to be desired.




Bob Pink.

Sweet job there

Alan,

In your third pic, the cables and the boxes you've added, you don't happen to know if they were there pre 1942?

John

More pictures of the progress of the Yukaikaze which I have done about two weeks ago. Very happy with the progress so far, and the progress is not too slow. You can see in the following pics of the bridge and the funnel details that I have worked on.

The model is nearly finish, I am going to start superdetailing the tug boat, the crane etc...

Will post more pictures later on.

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I am not sure but it was there in 1945. Check the Gakken Kegaro Class book for details.

Cool

Luciano

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Below showing steps for super-detailing the funnel outlet. Small but not hard to do anyway.

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More Pics of the model before painting. It is 95% finished.

May add sandbags or anti-sprinters later on to enhance the model.

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Very nice

I found the railing on the tops of the turrets and torpedo launchers a nighmare in 1/350th so can't imagine what it was like at half the size...

John

Very, very nice. A couple of thoughts and observations so far:

The grab rails along the turrets, funnels, torpedo mounts, and around the lower bridge face might have stuck out all of 6 inches away from the surface. The grabrail itself is no more than 1-2 inches in width. Despite the proliferation of these items on some great 1/700 models, these object are typically overscale in 1/700. That said, the funnel grabs here look properly scaled. So does those very nicely scratchbuilt funnel grills - that take patience.

More important - unlikely most popular depictions, even by the new Hasegawa 1/350 Yukikaze, the splinter shielding around the forward 25mm AA mount and the twin triple 25mm AA mounts in front of funnel #2 IS NOT solid steel shielding. IN fact, it is not shielding at all. These were always two bar railings covered with canvas. Solid steel splinter shielding for thee locations was not introduced until mid-production Yugumo and Matsu class DDs. Plenty of photographic evidenc eto bear this out for all DD classes prior to the Yugumo/Matsus. The problem is been a combination or poor quality photos and simplistic misinterpetation or ease of depiction by the model manufacturers with the early (1970s era) releases in all scales.

Very, very nice. A couple of thoughts and observations so far:

The grab rails along the turrets, funnels, torpedo mounts, and around the lower bridge face might have stuck out all of 6 inches away from the surface. The grabrail itself is no more than 1-2 inches in width. Despite the proliferation of these items on some great 1/700 models, these object are typically overscale in 1/700. That said, the funnel grabs here look properly scaled. So does those very nicely scratchbuilt funnel grills - that take patience.

More important - unlikely most popular depictions, even by the new Hasegawa 1/350 Yukikaze, the splinter shielding around the forward 25mm AA mount and the twin triple 25mm AA mounts in front of funnel #2 IS NOT solid steel shielding. IN fact, it is not shielding at all. These were always two bar railings covered with canvas. Solid steel splinter shielding for thee locations was not introduced until mid-production Yugumo and Matsu class DDs. Plenty of photographic evidenc eto bear this out for all DD classes prior to the Yugumo/Matsus. The problem is been a combination or poor quality photos and simplistic misinterpetation or ease of depiction by the model manufacturers with the early (1970s era) releases in all scales.

Here's one example of Yukikaze immediatley postwar. Look carefully at the forward platform

Here's another of Isokaze's 25mmAA platform and starboard mount in October, 1944 prior to Leyte Gulf. You are looking aft, past the bridge. (Incidentally, note that at this point, Isokaze still has its forward lifeboats and davits, as do all the Kageros. These items were not removed and replaced by splinter shielding & single 25mm AA mounts until after Leyte Gulf.) I have very high resoution version of this pic & when enlarged, two separate, different colored canvas wrappings, one upper, and one lower, can be seen surrounding the mount, along with the railing uprights and various degrees of tension in the canvas

I attached two photos of the destroyer IJN Harusame that I have done last year. That is my first destroyer that I have ever done for competition purpose. The ship was sunk by B-25, that is why I decide to show the ship under attack by B-25.

The techniques were learned from making the Harusame and now applied onto the Yukikaze.

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Let me compliment you on a very well done model, esp. for such a poor kit. Many of us wait for a new, proper Shiratsuyu class release.

For the historical record (this is not a knock on your excellent work), Harusame lost her bow forward of the #1 funnel (inlcuding her bridge) after being torpedoed by the USS Wahoo in January 1943. Her bow was replaced, along with a Yugumo style bridge, in mid-1943